President Obama will move the Internet from Title I to Title II. Title II is how the FCC over-regulates landline telephone lines – you know, that bastion of innovation lo these last seventy-plus years. Title II opens up the Pandora’s Box of uber-regulation of the Internet.

Current law dictates that a state can only require a business to collect its sales tax if it is physically present within its boundaries….

S.743 (the Marketplace Fairness Act [MFA]) would countenance an enormous expansion in state tax collection authority by wiping away the “physical presence standard,” a baseline protection that shields taxpayers from harassment by out of state collectors….

Dismantling this protection for remote retail sales would create a very slippery slope for states to attempt collection of business or even income taxes from out of state entities.

Why would anyone object to being taxed by forty-nine states with which they have no relationship? Taxation without representation on stilts, perhaps?

After they pay all those new taxes, and plow through those thousands-of-pages-of-new-law and hundreds-of-thousands-of-pages-of-new-regulation, I’m sure they’ll have plenty of money, time, and energy left to, you know, actually concentrate on their businesses.

Though that last part really isn’t at all important important to the Big Government Coalition. For them, ‘tis far better that you be paid up on their taxes and in compliance with their red tape.

No matter how much red ink ensues.

P.S.: You can contact Congress and let them know how incredibly foolish – i.e. D.C.-like – they’re being with this new Internet tax here.